Word: rios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wanted to be a musician disappeared in the wilds of sea and mountains between Brunswick, Ga., and Rio de Janeiro. In his youth in Rochester, Paul Redfern studied music, dreaming of one day becoming a great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon...
...tracks, by burrowing under the snow-blockade line of the Continental Divide, replacing 23 miles of 4% grades with six miles of 2% grades; make Denver 44 miles nearer Salt Lake City than via the Union Pacific, 174 miles nearer than via Pueblo on the present Denver & Rio Grande Western route; it will carry motorists under the Divide, on flatcars the year round; carry oil, power and water lines through the Divide in a special eight-foot bore parallel...
Died. Dr. Gastao da Cunha, famed Brazilian diplomat, onetime (1919) Ambassador to Italy, onetime (1920) Ambassador to France, onetime Ambassador to Portugal, onetime (1921-22) President of the League of Nations Council; after a long illness, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
...hero of the occasion has been, appropriately, the most heroic aspect of it. Never has his tongue or his balance slipped, always has he been what kindly old ladies might call "a real nice boy." Anyone might have said, as Colonel Lindbergh said at the performance of Rio Rita: "I won't keep you long; you'd rather see the show than listen to me." But few would have fulfilled that promise and sat down after a speech of hardly more than a moment's duration. And Colonel Lindbergh's con duct in Paris...
...Nonohay, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, natives and their families danced rustically last week; banteringly told one Lieut. Matias Cuardos, coxcomb, that he might not join their merrymaking. Enraged, Matias Cuardos ordered a squad of his soldiers to fire at the dancers. Eleven were killed, 27 wounded...